The St. Johns herald., 1887-11-24

amhikon, and is ,soured? Sore, per haps, scabby?
 Robbed of its awkward adjectives and gawky grammar, the charges against the District Attorney, may be boiled down to about this: He is smart, shrewd, corrupt official 1; uses his position to enrich his friends; has such power with the Board of Supervisors, as to induce them to accept and act upon his ad- vice and mulct the county in exor- bitant attorneys fees. Concede that to be true, and what is the in- eyitable consequence as to their | Honors, Ernest Tee. David Rope and J. II. Richards. Either that these gentlemen are themselves cor rupt, and wink at, or participate in the corruption of their legal ad wiser, or they are such stupid asses as to be duped by this man learned in the law.
 One horn of this dilemma the Board of Supervisors and their friends, are forced to embrace, ac- cording to the Citizens special writer"
 The fact is, that all of those gen. tlemen dwell in such rarifed at mosphere of personal and official purity that did this special writer" attempt to mount the elevation, one breath of such uncongenial air would completely asphyxiate Linn.
 The District Attorney needs no defence at our hands. His life for four years has been an open book in this county, and the records of the court show, that in proportion to the number of indictments, he has convicted ten criminals where any and all of his predecessors have convicted one. Every man tried at the last term of the court, was convicted and severely sen fenced.
 The statement that Judge Bald win was introduced as a relative of the District Attorney is simply silly lie, that must have been ma licious, for the reason, that a sim pie question to any of dozen citi zens would have evoked the truth. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad had practically refused for seve- ral years to pay taxes upon about a $1,000,000 worth of property. The District Attorney was big en- ough lawyer to appreciate the gray ity and importance of the issue informed the Board of Supervisors that he wished assistance from a more matured legal experience than his own. Judge Baldwin, who had distinguished himself both at the bar and on the bench in Indiana, himself large taxpayer in Apache county, owning one-half the stock in the Wabash Cattle Company, be- ing here. was selected to aid the District Attorney-was paid req sonable retainer and promised a fee contingent on doubtful result.
 What does the sequel show? The two Baldwin's have triumphantly won the suit against the railroads attorney and all of the leaders of the Prescott bar, thus settling for ever, until reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States, the lia- bility of the road to pay taxes in the future, and fastening upon it a liability to the county of about $65, GOO for taxes past due.
 The judgment against Baca and his sureties in the trial court was not Cover $14,OOO," but for $11, ,166 54-was standing on appeal in the Supreme Court, the appellants de- termined and able to appeal it to the United States Supreme Court, where it would have lain from five to eight years. The Board wisely compromised this doubtful claim for about 5000. The District At torney was not the adviser of the Board in this matter, having been